Goals for these graphs

• comparing the coverage of Congo to earlier publications (specifically earlier Arab Scribe, Cultural Yearbook, and Egyptian Economic and Political Review)
• comparing the coverage of Congo to the rest of the magazine in Arab Review and Arab Observer
• Ultimately argue that the increase in coverage was notable but also that Congo had a particular discourse in these publications

#import libraries

import pandas as pd
import altair as alt
alt.renderers.enable('notebook')
alt.data_transformers.enable('default', max_rows=None)
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
sns.set()
import numpy as np
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')
import ast

#import data

Datasets: National Publications House

• Arab Observer 1960-1963
• The Scribe 1961-1964
• Arab Review 1960-1963

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Egyptian Periodicals

• Egyptian Economic and Political Review 1954-1962

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AAPSO Periodicals

• Afro-Asian Bulletin 1961-1967 (English edition)
• Afro-Asian Bulletin 1961-1967 (Arabic edition)

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African American Periodicals

• Liberator 1961-1971
• Freedomways 1961-1985

# 1. Arab Observer 1960-1963
ArabObserver_df = pd.read_csv('../data/arab_observer_corpus_cleaned.csv')

ArabObserver_df.datetime = pd.to_datetime(ArabObserver_df['date'], format='%Y-%B-%d', errors='coerce')
ArabObserver_1960_61 = ArabObserver_df[ArabObserver_df.datetime < '1962-01-01']
alt.Chart(ArabObserver_1960_61).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('date:T'),
    y=alt.Y('sum(cleaned_spacy_counts)')
)

# 1. Arab Review 1960-1963
arab_review_df = pd.read_csv('../data/Arab_Review_1960_1963_volumes_processed.csv')
arab_review_1960_61 = arab_review_df.query('dates.str.contains("1960")')
# arab_review_df['page_date'] = arab_review_df.dates.astype(str)+'_'+arab_review_df.page.astype(str)
alt.Chart(arab_review_1960_61).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('page:O'),
    y=alt.Y('sum(cleaned_spacy_counts)'),
).properties(
    width=500
)

#distribution of Congo in multiple publications until September 1960

#TFIDF + NMF of how Congo was being covered across publications